Coffee – Hex Vex and the Lavender Mink [2x10"] Outer Rock (Noise / Psych / Free) "My first listen to these

"My first listen to these four extraordinary pieces by Chris Corsano

is the sound essay 15 Corners of the World incomplete

psychedelic surfer haunted by this sonic ocean and its crushing shore breaks

What unfurls can feel intensely personal

but the tracks are more painterly than recent DC epics – these are celebratory vignettes of thoughts – singles

Coffee – Hex Vex and the Lavender Mink [2x10"] Outer Rock (Noise / Psych / Free) "My first listen to these"Hex Vex And The Lavender Mink compiles the group's musical obsessions at the turn of the century, droll Brit drone, the magnificent Arthur Doyle, extremely dangerous onstage pyrotechnics, the fabulous Raymond Scott, cheesy electro dub effects and, most of all, competitive and confusing American free improvisation. David Cross and Tim Poland with their friends Arthur Doyle, Nuuj (of Hilkka and Sheet), Neil Campbell (of Vibracathedral Ochestra), Phil